King Barrett opens up on starring in in the 'best ever' WWE movie and and shooting his own stunts
– King Barrett who won the King of the Ring this year recently spoke with the Sun UK. He spoke about starring in movies and training with MMA experts for doing his own stunts. Barrett who is one of the most charismatic superstars in the WWE has starred in a small roles earlier.
Barrett will use all his bare-knuckle fighting experience to train and perform his own stunts. For the in-depth interview click here.
On doing stunts and MMA training.
King Barrett took on training with MMA expert Scott Adkins for his stunt and fight scenes and described him as a ‘Ninja’. He talks about how it was to train with him and some of the incidents while training. He assures the fans that it was himself who did all the stunts and that they will see that once the movie releases. Barrett said.
“You’ll see my face right the way through the stunts and the fight scenes. They were 100% done by me. I actually took a kick from Scott, he’s kind of a ninja. He does some incredible jiu jitsu and Taekwondo kicks. I’m a meat and potatoes puncher and wrestler and he does all these spinning, crazy kicks. He caught me with one and I literally couldn’t breathe for fifteen seconds afterwards! We’re definitely knocking lumps out of each other in the movie.”
On his ambition for the new movie.
King Barrett talks about a small movie role in 2012 for WWE Studios where he played the bodyguard to the bad guy. His goal is to make the movie that he is starring in as the main villain the best ever movie made by WWE Studios. He says that he has a full fledged role as the main bad guy in the upcoming film.
“This is a big step up for me. I did a movie in 2012 with WWE Studios where I played a fairly small part as a bodyguard to the bad guy. This time I’m the main bad guy in the film chasing down the good guy. Our aim at the start of this movie was to make it the best WWE Studios film of all time and I think we’re well on the way to doing that.”